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Class Lectures

Introduction to Modernism
Marie Belloc-Lowndes: The Lodger
James Joyce from Dubliners: “The Sisters,” “Araby,” “Eveline,” “The Boarding House,” and “Ivy Day in the Committee Room.Bring both The Lodger and Portable James Joyce to class.
James Joyce: "The Dead" and Exiles
Virginia Woolf: The Voyage Out, chs. 1-12
Virginia Woolf: The Voyage Out, chs. 13-27
James Joyce, from Ulysses: "Hades" & T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land and "The Hollow Men"
Midterm
Somerset Maugham: The Painted Veil, pp. 3-246
Jean Rhys: Voyage in the Dark, pp. 7-246
Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca, pp. 1-193
Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca, pp. 195-410
Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca, Group Questions

Alfred Hitchcock: Rebecca (1940):
Screenplay by Joan Harrison and Robert E. Sherwood
Adapted by Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan from Daphne du Maurier's novel
Rebecca's Awards
NY Times Review of Rebecca
Film summary, evaluation, and discussion: "1940: Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)" at Goodfella's Movie Blog

Peter Shaffer: The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1970)

Take-Home Final Exam